"Can I see her?" Jessie asked, bouncing on her heels, a worried expression on her face as she stood outside the medical room.
"Not yet sweetie, I'll come and get you as soon as she's ready, I promise," Jean said, down on one knee in front of the impatient youngster.
"She is okay isn't she?" Jessie asked.
"Of course she is, now go on, I'll come and find you," she replied, pushing the young girl towards the elevator before going back in to the room.
"She's gone. Why won't you see her?" Jean asked as she walked back in and over to the bed were Callie lay looking exhausted and still rather scared.
"I've always been the strong one. If she sees me like this, it'll scare her so much. I can't let that happen," Callie replied, her voice quiet and a little weak as Jean sat on the side of the bed she was in.
"She's worried about you," Jean replied simply, putting a hand on Callie's.
"I know. Soon, it just seems my healings a little slower than normal," She replied, giving Jean a weak smile, her eyes still a little puffy from the crying she'd done when she got back.
"It's a lot of pain he put you through Callie, it might take a while to heal internally," Jean replied.
"If he builds another one of those remotes, I don't know what's gonna happen. The full power could kill me," Callie replied, worried for her sister. She'd never survive the world if Callie wasn't there.
"He won't. I promise I'll find a way to take them out," Jean replied simply. They had scanned Callie when she'd gotten back and found 2 small chips that had been inserted just inside her skull.
"Jean, don't make a promise that you might not keep," Callie replied, looked straight at Jean, the spark in her eyes was slowly beginning to return.
"I'll try everything I can," She replied, smiling at the young girl in front of her.
An hour later Callie was sitting up in the bed with a book open in front of her. One of the few times she ever got a chance to read was when she was injured or sick.
The door opening caused Callie to look up from her book and groan as her parents entered the room.
"You are gonna be the death of us some day," Her dad said, walking straight over to her and sitting on the end of the bed whilst her mother hugged her tightly before holding her at arm's length and looking her over.
"I'm fine mum," Callie said looking back at her mum who was still fussing over her.
"If I ever get my hands on that man he'll have both me and your father to deal with. We can take him to court, we can sue him and-," her mum started, before getting cut off by her daughter.
"Mum, we can't go to court without exposing me as a mutant, that's worse than I've gone through, seriously, if anyone's gonna do anything it's probably gonna be Logan. He'll kill him if he gets his hands on him," Callie said, putting a hand on her mum's shoulders.
"Jean says you haven't let Jess see you yet, you should. She thinks you're dying," Her father said as he smiled at her.
"She what?" Callie asked, looking at her dad, "go and get her for me. I know Jean said she was worried but really? She thinks I'm dying?"
"I'll go and find her," Her dad said, kissing his daughter on the forehead before leaving the room.
"So, this Logan guy?" Her mum asked, giving Callie a look.
"Oh trust me, it's nothing like that," Callie replied, laughing a little at her mum's insinuation.
"Yeah, it's nothing like that, you alright kid?" Logan asked, walking in to the room.
"A little washed out," She replied.
"Seems all you needed was a visit from your parents to put the spark back in your eyes. You had me worried for a moment," He said, nodding to her mother.
"Seems it was," Callie replied, smiling before a blur of brown hair bundled Callie almost off the other side of the bed.
"You're alive!" Jessie shouted, wrapping her arms round Callie's neck and hugging her tightly.
"Was I ever not?" Callie asked, hugging her sister back with a smile on her face, "how's blackout dealing then?"
"I can blackout a room on command now," Jessie said smiling as she bounced on the bed, smiling.
"So you are a mutant as well," Her mum said, a smile on her face as she watched her two girls, one almost no longer a teenager, and the other not even hitting her teens yet.
"Yep, just like Cal," Jessie said smiling.
"Shame about that… more midgets to put up with," Logan said, earning himself a whack from Jessie which he didn't even flinch.
"You'll regret that," Callie said smiling at her little sister who simply stuck her tongue out at Callie before skipping out the room.
"I spoke to Jean earlier, she said you're not to train or fight until we can get the chips out, she's worried they'll spark off," Logan said as her dad re-entered the room.
"No, worries, I'm sure I'll find something to keep me entertained," Callie replied, smiling before getting back in to conversation with her parents.